Yelland plant pot

Yelland plant pot

See also:

Yelland plant pot - 4¼" (107 mm) high, 5¾" (146 mm) diameter.

Michael Leach was Bernard Leach's
younger son, born in 1913, two years after his brother David.

He spent a short time at the Leach Pottery
before serving in the army during the Second World War. His pottery talents
were not wasted in the army; he set up two potteries in East Africa to make
utensils for the troops.

After the war he worked with Agnete
Hoy at
Buller's, returning to Leach Pottery in 1948. In 1955 he left to set up Yelland
Pottery at Fremington, Devon, which he worked until his retirement in 1984.
He died the following year.

In 1955 when Michael Leach and
his brother David decided to part company
with the Leach Pottery at St Ives,
David set up the Aylesford Pottery
in Kent and Michael started the Yelland Manor Pottery, better known as just
Yelland Pottery, at Fremington in North Devon.

He continued to work the pottery until shortly before his death in 1985.
He was helped, at one time by Frannie, who married Philip, Michael's son.
The couple now run the nearby Springfield
Pottery.

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The Leach Legacy by Marion Whybrow

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